After many years of planning, preparation and anticipation, the Heliospheric Physics Branch's new Building 21 Space Physics Instrumentation Facility (SPIF) has opened for business. The state-of-the art facility includes a class 1000 clean room for flight instrument assembly, two large vacuum systems for instrument testing, a beam
facility, supplies and testing equipment, and a staff eager to advance space physics particle instrumentation well beyond where it stands today...